1904
2000
1800
1600
1400
1200
1000
Indonesia
800
580
600
400
200
0
5
5
1960
1970
88
113
1980
1990
2010
UNPAD 44
~ 2010 < 300
2000
2010
16000
14000
12000
10000
Indonesia
8000
Malaysia
6000
Thailand
4000
Singapore
2000
0
1960
1970
1980
1990
2000
2010
600000
500000
US
400000
Indonesia
300000
Malaysia
Thailand
200000
Singapore
100000
0
1960
1970
1980
1990
2000
2010
Indonesia
0.00001
0.000008
0.000006
Indonesia
0.000004
0.000002
0
1960
1970
1980
1990
2000
2010
0.003
0.0025
0.002
Indonesia
Malaysia
0.0015
Thailand
0.001
Singapore
0.0005
0
1960
1970
1980
1990
2000
2010
0.003
0.0025
US
0.002
Indonesia
0.0015
Malaysia
Thailand
0.001
Singapore
0.0005
0
1960
1970
1980
1990
2000
2010
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Journal Article
Working paper
Book
Book Chapter
Conference Proceeding
Dissertation/Thesis
Others
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Since the time
began, there are
50 Million journal
article, published
for 350 years.
Online/electronic
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A bibliographic
database is a
database of
bibliographic
records, an
organized digital
collection of
references to
published literature.
Typical bibliographic
records:
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MS-World
bibliography demo.
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Our own personal collection
A library collection
A publisher collection
Many publishers collection
Many publishers collection with specific
discipline
Many publishers collection with many
disciplines
Universal collection??? The database of all
knowledge.
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Publish or perish!
Don’t reinvent the
wheel!
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Imagine:
All of existing
human knowledge
is at your fingertip!
We are ‘standing on
the shoulder of the
giant’.
inequality
Income
Testing the theory of the Kuznet Curve
16
Cross country data
14
12
Inequality
10
8
E
6
E'
4
2
Turning Point
0
0
-2
0.5
1
1.5
2
2.5
Income Per Capita (USD’000)
3
3.5
4
4.5
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Baca survey orang
lain
Cek J. of Economic
Surveys
Manfaatkan
bibiliographic
database
◦ RePEC, Google
scholars, Econlit
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Banyak database
yang free.
Medium level journal
is a good start.
Value-added
 At the minimum, it is not a duplication.
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At the maximum, a Nobel-winning
publication
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Today, Only the best, richest
universities/institutions in the rich countries
can have ‘TOTAL’ access to ‘the universal
knowledge’ (bibliographic database)!
But, as time goes by, accessibility to us is
getting and getting better.
And … Most of the time we don’t need the
‘TOTAL’ access.
TOTAL = Full text
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How journal rating and impact factor can help
our research?
Read a literature-survey article. Look up their
reference list.
Read literature review section of an article.
Look up their reference list.
Pick the most complete bibliographic
database (multi-discipline accessible: google
scholar, Scirus; economics: repec)
Searching literature =/= finding full text
articles
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Don’t search topic, like “strategic management”.
Focus on your keywords or variables in your research
questions.
Research questions:
◦ How does inequality affect growth in Indonesia?
◦ Does policies affect poverty?
◦ To what extent unemployment drives poverty in developing
countries?
Add methodology if necessary: Structural equation
modeling, multivariate analysis
Save and filter your research.
Identify whether a survey article is among them.
Read the abstracts first, and analyze.
Find the full text of what you think the most relevant.
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FE UNAIR asked you to give a seminar about
innovation and economic growth
BEM UNPAD invited you to talk about economic
growth and poverty in Indonesia.
You don’t want to be like all other economist
celebrities, you want to give a research-based
talk.
◦ Survey the literature
◦ and your own analysis (if you have time, off course)
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Or what about any of you who are doing
research/thesis/dissertation?
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Wikipedia list.
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Most notably:
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Scopus (claim to have indexed 40 millions records)
ISI Web of knowledge (40 millions records)
EBSC Host
Google Scholar (?? Records)
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Proquest
EBSCO
Cengage
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Google Scholar
Scirus